Why isn't there copper jacketed .22lr again?

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Why isn't there copper jacketed .22lr again?

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I know this has been asked a million times before, and I am aware that some company in South Africa or something makes some. Still, why isn't there a commercially produced lead .22 again?
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Do you mean, "why isn't there a copper plated, subsonic 22lr?
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double post, D'oh!
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It's really not all that hard to understand.

Because nobody will buy it.
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doubloon wrote:It's really not all that hard to understand.

Because nobody will buy it.
Actually some would buy it - but most of us look for the best buy/cheapest bang for our dollar and specialty ammo like that
would cost 3 to 5 times the cost of bulk 22LR
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Winchester Dynapoints are often, but not always, SS in many rifles and pistols. They are copper wash.

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Artful wrote:
doubloon wrote:It's really not all that hard to understand.

Because nobody will buy it.
Actually some would buy it - but most of us look for the best buy/cheapest bang for our dollar and specialty ammo like that
would cost 3 to 5 times the cost of bulk 22LR
I stand corrected! I believe that too.

May I amend my statement to not enough people will buy it to make it worth someone's while?
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doubloon wrote:
Artful wrote:
doubloon wrote:It's really not all that hard to understand.

Because nobody will buy it.
Actually some would buy it - but most of us look for the best buy/cheapest bang for our dollar and specialty ammo like that
would cost 3 to 5 times the cost of bulk 22LR
I stand corrected! I believe that too.

May I amend my statement to not enough people will buy it to make it worth someone's while?
No you may not!

How many people buy 158 gr 9mm?
22 mag
22 hornet
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Stu, actually has a good point - if you could round up all of the people willing to pay the extra cost (most likely about twice 22 mag prices) and order (in secured money) a special run of the product (jacketed 22Lr subsonic) it could be worth someone's time to make it. You could approach CCI, Fed, Win, Rem etc with the idea.

Provided the order was big enough - the tough part is getting someone to make jacketed heeled pullets with a jacket thin enough not to to cause high pressures and stay within the pressure curve for reliable operation with domestic and foreign chamber dimensions in blowback rifles.

In the past their have been problems with some loadings not working in all guns, So you may have to have testing weapons with most popular 22LR in use by suppressor owners (Savage Mk2, Ruger 10/22, Ruger Mk2, Walther P22, Buckmark, etc)
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Stu wrote:How many people buy 158 gr 9mm?
Considering how quickly it sells out, quite a few.
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Post by Twinsen »

Stu, "jacketed", not "plated". Just about all cheap .22LR is plated. Jackets are thick, not just a thin layer you can scrape off with a fingernail.
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Dang, you guys are really going to try to go the distance on this one.

OK, create a market and see if one of the manufacturers will bite.
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Twinsen wrote:Stu, "jacketed", not "plated". Just about all cheap .22LR is plated. Jackets are thick, not just a thin layer you can scrape off with a fingernail.
I don't even like to call it plated. Rainier or Berry's bullets are plated, you can't scrape it off without a hard tool, though the surface not as thick as a jacketed bullet.
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Yes, I meant jacketed. I've been gone too long.
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Stu wrote:Yes, I meant jacketed. I've been gone too long.
What have you been doing in your absence from this site? I bet nothing meaningful.
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If it was totally jacketed, base included, I'd be up for some.......
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What we want is a .22 magnum bullet in a .22 long rifle case.

Easy as pie!
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Yeah, is it the same diameter? That'd be simple.
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Diomed wrote:What we want is a .22 magnum bullet in a .22 long rifle case.

Easy as pie!
22 magnum is a non-heeled .224 bullet
22 LR is a .223 Heeled bullet
(base is smaller than full diameter of bullet which is same diameter of case)
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notice on the magnum the case grips the bullet like all other modern cartridges but the 22 LR grips the lower part of the bullet but the rest of the bullet is the same size as the case itself - all one diameter.

We know a 22 LR Jacketed was developed for the US Gov't in WWII as it was issued with the OSS and CIA High Standard HDM integral sound suppressed pistol.

Oh, I found a link to someone who's touting some
http://www.rimfireuniverse.com/
but they are in South Africa - how to we import?
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This is a scan from a June, 1961 TM titled "Small-Arms Ammunition", showing the FMJ 22 LR, which was adopted as the M24. They used standard 22 LR for training, target-practice, competition, etc., but the M24 FMJ was issued for the 22 LR bail-out guns. This manual also shows the 22 Hornet, which they adopted as the M65.

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.17 HMR is fully jacketed, and these tend to run about $0.25 per bullet +/-. These are also produced in bulk which would lower the price, yet are also produced at slightly better tolernces which would raise the price.

I figure if jacketed .22 was sold it would go for about the same price, but I don't know how much of a market it would have. There will always be someone somewhere will to purchase something, but at those prices it wouldn't make sense to buy it over a .17 HMR ... unless you needed the bullet to be subsonic. Mostly the only people who care about subsonic are people who use silencers, and this just isn't a big enough crowd.

It is for this same reason that subsonic .223 isn't really an off-the-shelf item; because the only people who would care about it are the people who use a silencer - again - a very small crowd of people (relatively speaking).

I think that if jacketed .22 LR was sold at the $0.25-per-bullet price that a significant percentage of its buyers would be people who just always "buy-the-best" regardless of its merits.

I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't ever buy it. It would be too expensive to use all the time, so I'd inevitably use the lead-fouling variety and still have to take my can apart to clean it. Yeah, you could theoretically get a quieter silencer if it were sealed, but in practice, the quietest silencers on the market right now are servicable so the only real benefit to a jacketed bullet right at this moment is convenience. And when that convenience costs 5-8 times as much, it just isn't worth it.
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TROOPER wrote:.17 HMR is fully jacketed, and these tend to run about $0.25 per bullet +/-. ...
That's a lot of words but it sure sounds similar to not enough people will buy it.
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Artful wrote:Oh, I found a link to someone who's touting some
http://www.rimfireuniverse.com/
but they are in South Africa - how to we import?
Just find a friendly type 08 or 11 FFL.

Easy as pie!
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Diomed wrote:
Artful wrote:Oh, I found a link to someone who's touting some
http://www.rimfireuniverse.com/
but they are in South Africa - how to we import?
Just find a friendly type 08 or 11 FFL.

Easy as pie!
So anyone here 08 or 11 ? I don't know anyone.
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Artful wrote:So anyone here 08 or 11 ? I don't know anyone.
They are not common. The 08 is unusual, and I'm probably not wrong in thinking that the 11 is the rarest of all FFLs.

Most 08s are going to be large outfits like Century.
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